Global Migration Map

Reason for Migration

Arranged marriage from their parents in Greece to build a life in the United States

Social Migratory Networks

Sent by parents to start a family and obtain jobs in the USA

Migration Policies

The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota.

Migration Information

Languages Spoken

Greek

English

WWII

Frankfurt Germany reduced to rubble, Oma forced to move to countryside, meets OPA, leaves to United States

Family in Wahoo

Family in Wahoo/Migration Policies post WWII/Languages Spoken

Oma brought two daughters from Frankfurt with her to Wahoo Nebraska. Then had my mom, aunt, and uncle.

US Migration Policies Post WWII

Family/Migration Policies/Languages

President Harry S. Truman issued a directive in 1946 to allocate half of the European quotas for refugee admissions. —Due to displacement of Europeans from their homelands in WWII

Languages Spoken

Oma speaks fluent German and English

Mayflower

My distant great grandfather was a doctor on the Mayflower, he traveled with his wife (Died same time as Edward), and son Samuel Fuller (lived further on in the Americas.--Led to my Opa marrying my Oma centuries later

Migration Reasons

Freedom from religious persecution, and the opportunity for independence

Migration Policies at The Time

England’s King James I to agree to allow them to resettle in America, and they obtained support from financial speculators in the London Virginia Company in return for granting the company a large portion of the crops to be produced in the New World

Social Migratory Networks

Migratory

Information

Left behind parents as well as siblings to travel with his family in search for freedom from religious persecution

Languages Spoken

English

Mom

My mom migrated to Los Angeles California after growing up in Wahoo Nebraska. She was a Cornhusker at Nebraska State and after she recieed her degree, drove out to LA for a job she landed as an advertiser. Here she met my Dad, bought a home, and had me and my brothers. My mom still resides in the same home she bught with my Dad 23 years later.

Mom

Dad

My Dad grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, went to college as a Bobcat at Ohio University, and moved out to California thereafter. My Dad sought to advance his career in the automotive publishing industry in Los Angeles. He married my mom, and was extremely successful within his profession. He has supported the family as much as possible considering his tight schedule with work, and is now happily married to my step-mom.

Dad

Amy

My Step-mom Amy moved to California relatively recently. She met my father in Charlotte, North Carolina then moved to Los Angeles to further pursue their relationship as well as her career. She now sits on the board of Price Water House Coopers as partner and lives an exquisit life with my dad. I could not be happier with the result of their marriage as they are both extremely supportive of the overall Savas family.

Amy